Thoresby. The end of an era | Chris Upton

The 10th July 2015 is a landmark date in the history of Nottinghamshire. When the last shift at Thoresby Colliery finishes on that day not only does it mark the end of 90 years of mining in the village of Edwinstowe but it signals the end of mining in Nottinghamshire. The pit opened in 1925 and over the years has employed tens of thousands of local people. It was one of 46 coalmines in Nottinghamshire, which supplied more than 14 million tonnes of coal per year at their peak in the early 1960s. The first two shafts were sunk to 690m in 1925 and subsequently deepened in the 1950s to the current pit bottom at around 900m depth. Thoresby Colliery was the first to have fully mechanised coal production and also the first to achieve an annual saleable output of more than a million tons, it became a star performer in the British coal mining industry. In the late 1980s it raised output to exceed 2 million tons, regularly smashing it’s production records, and the colliery became known as the Jewel in the crown of Nottinghamshire mines. A crown sits proudly on the headstocks in recognition of this achievement…….

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